Jennifer Higgie

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Previously the editor of frieze magazine, and the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history, she is the author and illustrator of the children’s book 'There’s Not One'; the editor of 'The Artist’s Joke' and author of the novel 'Bedlam', about the 19th century fairy painter Richard Dadd. Her book on women’s self-portraits, 'The Mirror & The Palette: Rebellion, Revolution & Resistance, 500 Years of Women's Self Portraits', was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2021. 'The Other Side: Women, Art and the Spirit World', is published 2 February 2023.

Jennifer has been a judge of the Paul Hamlyn Award, the Turner Prize and the John Moore’s Painting Prize. She also writes screenplays and her paintings are in collections in Australia.